Our Grand Adventure: Our New Schedule!

Again, not a whole lot to update on. We spent half the day yesterday observing another English camp lead by Dangye Elementary School. The English Camp is one week long. The teachers put together a booklet of activities ranging all different subjects. Music, dance, cooking, culture, drama, and mini-Olympics were all subjects that the kids got to explore for one week. No tests, no homework, just show up and have fun!

We watched cooking class, part of the science class, and part of the mini-Olympics class. It looked like the kids were having great fun! Dangye English Camp inspired our own two-day camps at Seongnam. After we finished observing, we returned to our school with enough time to plan our two-day camps for the upcoming school year. Our camp includes culture, music, cooking, storytelling, science, and gym.

Every week our camp welcomes new students from all over Hoengseung. We teach 3rd/4th grade students on Mon/Tues and 5th/6th grade on Wed/Thurs. Each day is three periods from 9:50-12:10. The nice thing about our camp is that we only need to prepare two lessons for each class, one for the 3rd&4th grade group and on for the 5th&6th grade group and we teach the same lesson every week to new students.

Yours truly gets to teach music, cooking, and gym class. I know, the image of me teaching cooking and music classes is hilarious. However, I get to eat a free PB&J everyday! Jacob is teaching the "storytelling" (more of a literature type class) and science classes.

Friday mornings we teach six adult classes between the three native teachers here. Jacob is teaching two advanced adult classes, I'm teaching two intermediate adult classes and our co-worker, Linda, is teaching one intermediate and one advanced class.

After lunch our Seongnam Elementary program begins. I get to teach Kindy! Yay! Jacob has 2nd graders and advanced students, our co-worker is teaching 1st grade and intermediate learners.

The last program is the after school program. We renamed our groups from Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Gryffindor, to Hobbits(es), Elves, and Eagles. If you're a LOTR fan, you're welcome! Originally we had Hobbits, Elves, and Wizards, but apparently Wizards are seen as evil in Korea.

Jacob is teaching the Eagles (advanced students) and Phonics class (new to English), I am teaching the Elves (intermediate) and Writing club (advanced).

I have already started planning for my new classes, I am so excited to have a full schedule, our days will fly by!